CCJHR Lunchtime Seminar: Dr Ahmed Beshtawi (26/11/25)
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is delighted to announce a lunchtime seminar featuring Dr Ahmed Beshtawi, ACoRN Fellow at the UCC School of Law and a lecturer in international law at An-Najah National University, Palestine. He will be presenting a paper titled "When Law Plans Inequality: How Israel’s Planning Regime Denies Palestinian Children’s Right to Education".
The lunchtime seminar will take place on Wednesday 26th November at 1pm-2pm in the Moot Court Room (AL1.52) in the School of Law at Aras na Laoi, UCC.
Israel’s planning regime in the West Bank is often described as administrative, but in practice it functions as a tool of settler-colonial governance. This seminar shows how military orders, restrictive zoning, and a discriminatory permit system produce Palestinian “illegality” by design and facilitate the ongoing expansion of Israeli settlements. The presentation traces the human cost of this regime, especially its impact on Palestinian children whose homes and schools face demolition, destabilising their right to safe and meaningful education.
Dr Beshtawi’s research examines how legal structures operate under conditions of occupation, with a particular focus on discriminatory planning regimes, structural violence, and the rights of children. His current work explores the relationship between Israeli planning policies and the denial of Palestinian children’s right to education in Area C and East Jerusalem.
Discussant:
- Dr Dug Cubie (School of Law, UCC)
It would be greatly appreciated if attendees could RSVP here: CCJHR Lunchtime Seminar Dr Ahmed Beshtawi (26/11/25) – Fill out form
For more on this story contact:
Dr. Luke Noonan at luke.noonan@ucc.ie